Decolonizing Ancestral Landscapes

The pedagogical approach of Make Conscious course work brings together the analytic and consciousness tools of contemplative traditions with the rigor of graduate seminar level research. Designed for design professionals, creatives, artists, healers, and visionary entrepreneurs, you are here because you are ready to do the work within yourself in collaboration with community to bring about systemic shifts in the built environment.

Intro: Decolonizing Consciousness
Talk 1: Ancestral Landscapes & the Edge Condition
Talk 2: What is a Phenomenal Landscape
Talk 3: Genius Loci & Ancestral Activation
Talk 4: Regenerating Cosmos

Project:
Depending on your preferred mode of creative expression: writings, drawings, maps, and phenomenal creative output that celebrates your ancestral landscape.

An ancestral landscape holds within it family histories and stories of the land of our ancestors. Whether you come from Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, South America, Canada...the land of your ancestry intersects both with what remains and the legacy of erasure of culture, language, and history.

Though decolonization begins with your own consciousness and the inner landscape, we are not in this alone.

Collective consciousness is collective solidarity. As you meet your ancestors, we meet them too. Investigating our collective Ancestral landscapes is a direct line to the reclamation of power and lost lineages, geometries, languages and transmissions for the benefit of the next seven generations.